The relationship between the enclosure and the industrial revolution could be explained as dependent to each other. Farmers who struggled to find a way to harvest more efficiently initially triggered the enclosure movement. When it was discovered that plants such as clovers would not only replenish the nitrogen supply to the soil but also serve as food for the livestock. This revelation caused big landowners to block off their farm to ward off the less privileged farmers off their land. By doing so, the wealthy landowners reserved their nitrogen supplying crops to themselves. Not soon after the Enclosure, the less fortunate farmers were either forced to sell their small piece of land or work under a larger farm owner. Either way they soon fell into the hands of constant poverty. This is when the Putting-Out System emerged. The Putting-Out System was a system in which a merchant loaned raw materials to several cottage workers who returned it as a finished product to the merchant for a pay. This system threw the workers into competing with one another for quicker and more efficient production. Consequently, this struggle to manufacture more and more triggered the Industrial Revolution and the building of factories.
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